Irina Poltoratskaya

Irina Poltoratskaya
Personal information
Born	(1979-03-12) 12 March 1979 (age 45) Antratsyt
Nationality	Russian
National team
Years	Team
	Russia
Medal record Representing  Russia Women's handball Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Team World Championship 2001 Italy Team 2005 Russia Team 2007 France Team European Championship 2006 Sweden Team 2000 Romania Team 2008 Macedonia Team

Irina Igorevna Poltoratskaya (Russian: Ирина Игоревна Полторацкая, born 12 March 1979 in Antratsyt, Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian team handball player, playing on the Russian women's national handball team.^[1] She won gold medal with the Russian winning team in the 2005 World Women's Handball Championship in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and again in the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship in France.

Irina's career in Russia was stopped by a knee injury.  Anja Andersen, the coach of Slagelse Dream Team, Denmark brought Irina to Slagelse DT in 2004, and a few months later she underwent surgery and got a new meniscus.  The operation was successful, but only a year later did Irina return to the field.  Irina scored on penalties for Slagelse in the Champions League final, and she gave Anja Andersen her gold medal from the World Cup, as a thank you for helping her return to the world of handball.

Irina left Slagelse after some time and returned to the Russian national team (though a smaller role than before), where she ia.  played alongside Emiliya Turey, who she also played with when she played for Slagelse.

She is the wife of Russian handball player Timur Dibirov who plays for Macedonian club RK Vardar.

Individual awards

• MVP of 2007 EHF Women's Champions Trophy

References

1. "Oroszország" handball.hu – 2007 december 2 (Hungarian) (Retrieved on 20 December 2007)

External links

• Irina Dibirova at the European Handball Federation
• Irina Dibirova at Olympedia